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Words are Totems (of Etymology)

Hope in Source by Henry Zhu

Mar 28, 202600:53:52Technology

What happens when we treat language as a historical totem? Xiq walks with me at UBC campus for ! We discuss swarms of AI fairies, openness and game theory, hyperstition and psychomagic, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and wh...

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Words are Totems (of Etymology) is an episode from Hope in Source by Henry Zhu. What happens when we treat language as a historical totem? Xiq walks with me at UBC campus for ! We discuss swarms of AI fairies, openness and game theory, hype...

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What happens when we treat language as a historical totem? Xiq walks with me at UBC campus for ! We discuss swarms of AI fairies, openness and game theory, hyperstition and psychomagic, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and why thinking heaven is boring is a failure of imagination and misunderstanding of the infinite.

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